Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-04-06
Washington is outgrowing its present pounda-

washington is outgrowing IT'S present bounda-
rfes- Extensive suburban building and plating
Efforts to make such plating conform to the sys-
TEN OF the city streets, extension OF street car
lines and further proposed extensions, and pro-
posed suburban branches OF cable roads all point
TO time when the city OF Washington shall be
limited only by the boundaries OF the District OF
Columbia Everything which can be done to
bind the outlying district to the city will tend In
the desired direction. In addition to furnishing
increased facilities Of communication in new
street car lines cable roads and steam railroads,
the Improvement Of the county roads over which
the main travel In carriages and wagons viii pass
should not be overlooked. Not only will the peo-
pie OF the District in the county be benefited by
easier and closer communication with Washing
ton, OF which they are eventually to become citi-
zens but the city itself will feel the advantage OF
an enlargement OF its residence area and OF
easier communication with those who at
present largely supply its market. Good
roads In the county will join good roads in Mary
land, for there seems to be general
awakening in the adjacent counties OF that state
TO the advantages of an everg growing capital city
as a home market, and to the important part which
good roads play in swelling the profits Of such
trade. Long before the whole District IS q city
both Maryland and Virginia will doubtless be pre-
pared by easy communicating roads to take adj
vantage OF the mutually profitable trade which
the vicinity Of the capital affords. With the
vigorous development OF the city. its increase OF
population and the planting OF solid foundations
for a long suppressed local pride, comes a grow
ing, healthy local sentiment in the citizens of
Washington, OF which O present expression IS
found In the associations which are forming In
the different sections OF the city. Citizenship OF
the great Washington OF the future, with its
numerous and varied light manufactures giving
IL the wealth OF Paris without the smoke OF Pitts
burg, its vast population, its public buildings and
institutions its universities, its art schools and
art galleries, its scientific collections. its great
libraries and its general attractions as place OF
Residence indicated as well by miles of contract
built houses as by the palaces OF milliOnareS, will
be cause OF eongratulation and not OF reproaeh.
The importance OF the result Of yesterdays cleo
ton In Chicago can scarcely be overestimated. SO
confident were the outlaws OF the whole country,
afew months ago. that the social revolution started
In Chicago last year was bound to succeed there
and spread through all the large cities on the con-
tinent, that tme-serytng politicians had begun to
bid against each other for their votes. A notOri-
ously conspicuous figure in this competition was
Mayor Harrison himself who went as far as he
dared and could to curry favor with the socialist
gang. His latestrant tics, including the letter of
withdrawal in which he charged the National Ad-
ministration with exerting itself for hts defeat
were aetuated by the hope Of rOusing In his favor
that sympathy which all the devotees OF an un-
popular cause are supposed TO feel for their fellow
victims OF oppression. The inglOriou5 collapse of
the Carter boom before the election and the
handsome victory OF Mr.. Roche announced this
morning, must not be Interpreted, therefore in
narrow partisan spirit. The same thing would
have happened il carter had been a republican
and Roche democrat. What the people Of Chi
cago were bound TO do was to elect the man who
most strikingly exemplifed the popular faith In
law and order. and to crush any man who would
be base enough TO accept trust for the defense Of
society and then conspire 10 betray it. The work.
tngmen OF Chicago-nOt the tramps and vagabonds
who masquerade as labOrerS but the honest men
who earn their living by daily toil-came magnin-
Gently TO the front in the emergency. The real
cause Of labor reform received impetus from the
same source from which the sham pretenSe got It's
knOckdown blow. II the labor candidate had con-
Quoted himself like decent citizen he would |
have stood fair chance OF election But he went
about with hoodlum following, preaching social
ism in its rankest form, and disguised every good
man, rich or poor, Who came within reach OF his
voice. Yesterdays result therefore may be con-
Sdered not republican victory, even a victory
OF the lawabding elements in the two old parties
combined, but victory for the genuine working
men, who love their country and their homes over
the miserable mob who would avenge the Ill their
own incompetence and shiftlessneSs have brought
upon them by robbng their worthier neighbors
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